Movie: Fritz along Dr. Mabuse.

Dr. Abuse is the main character of several novels and films. In 1921, the Luxembourg writer Norbert Jacques published the first novel with the central character. Abuse, a genius that commits crimes with its energy and genius. He is by profession psychoanalyst, a criminal genius with hypnotic skills and a man with a thousand faces. Already a year later, the German director Fritz Lang ( Metropolis ) brought history as a two-piece silent film with great success in the cinemas. Eleven years later, he picked up the topic again and turned with the tone movie The Testament of Dr. Abuse a direct continuation of his classic.

Film: The Testament of Dr. Abuse - the original of 1933 Source: Wikipedia The Testament of Dr. Abuse is a mirror of its origin (1933) and a formerly representative of the thriller genres, the many until today copied standards introduced. The significant allusions of the film on the terrorists of the Nazis were of course not escaped, and so the then Reich Propaganda liter Joseph Goebbels quoted long. Goebbels tried to win long for the German propaganda films, which fell on the conversation - in the highest danger of life - decided to leave Germany immediately and flee to the US. The Testament of Dr. Abuse was forbidden in the Third Reich, but thanks to numbers of smuggled copies is available again as a reconstructed version. The movie can be watched for free at YouTube for free because he is now public domain.

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Film: The Testament of Dr. Abuse in the new edition of 1962 with Get Probe, Mental Berger, etc. Source: Wikipedia At the same time with the popular Edgar Wallace films of the 1960s, Doctor Abuse was again for the movie discovered. From 1960 to 1964, there were therefore six new black and white Magus films, which only emphasized on the criminal aspect and had little social-critical aspects: in the steel network of Dr. med. Abuse (1961), the invisible claws of Dr. med. Abuse (1962), The Testament of Dr. Abuse (1962), Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Abuse (1963), The death rays of Dr. Abuse (1964). An exception was the first film of this new series, the 1000 eyes of Dr. Abuse (1960), in which Fritz led again. A dialect persiflage of the last long-film has also brought it to some celebrity: The 1000 Glotzböbbel from Dr. med. Abuse, synchronized by the Swabian YouTuber Dominik Dodoma Kuhn.

Of course, films have nothing in common with today's rapid action thrillers, but are by no means dusty classic for the film museum. The black and white images of expressionist embossing still unfold a scary atmosphere that is in vain in some modern thrillers!

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Film: Dr. Abuse, the player (1922) [Source: Wikipedia]